Hmm never logged a dab before, dab is a pretty conservative ascent type for using 2 points of council-installed aid. A good weather day in launnie prompted moses and i to waddle down to shady side with some boulder pads and rip skin. Moses flashed a v5 that i sampled and could verify wasnt v1. A few average morning boulders culminated in lunch at the double dozen dome. I lumped a pad under double dozen and onsighted to the ledge on my 147th attempt at it! Pretty stoked to get the OS after all the failed attempts. DD start indeed boasted all the qualities of a classic boulder: A hip bar, a disgraceful flared hand and a slippery finger lock. Moses took abit of convincing to get onboard with this opinion. We were licking our wounds on the walk back to the expired parking ticket when we stumbled across a strangely placed park bench that prompted us to investigate the arete to its left. Upon moses searching it on the crag and learning the climb was accredited to the one and only, we had to drop our bags. Had a couple of cracks at the ground start and quickly realised why launceston installed the parkseat. I stepped in off the seat, which by the way i found to be strictly a misnomer.. it was much more useful to step off said seat than sit off it. Still a few lovely smears and a playful rounding of the arete to go free followed by an airy step up undercling to grab the sloping top of the boulder.. or in my case, what looked like an old antenna peg drilled into the top. Thankyou hot henry for your vision in establishing this line and youll be engratiated to learn that no cams were used in either of our ascents. The Henry Barber memorial tour of '22 is officially on the road!
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